What he giveth us here we take, that Christs body was by faith received even before he was incarnate. But how proveth this that Christ therefore spake there of a sacramental eating of it? and not rather that he called home those his carnal followers, from the corporal feeding, either on ithe bread that they had eaten of, or the kManna that they mentioned, and lwould fain still have been fed with, that they might live without labour, not to an eating of sacramental bread, which they would not have much misliked, but to that tspiritual feeding, uwhich as well their holy forefathers, as all true and faithful Christians now, were eternally saved by. Yea this may be confirmed by Bellarmines own grants: Who first confesseth this as xa certain truth, that there is no mention at all of the Eucharist in all that our Saviours discourse, before those words, (which were spoken after he had done yspeaking of the Manna) zThe bread that I will give is my flesh, that I will give for the life of the world. 2. He granteth expressly that those words, aI am the brad of life; he that cometh to me shall not hunger, &c. do bnot properly belong to the Sacrament. 3. He observeth ca three fold bread spoken of by our Saviour: the first, that dmaterial bread, ethat Christ had fed them withal: the second fspiritual bread, ghimself incarnate, hwhich he ⟨p. 124⟩wisheth them to get, and must iby faith be apprehended, that it may feed and refresh •s: the third (he might well have said kM•nna, which he omitteth, termed also lbread there, but) mthe sacramental bread (saith he) expressed in those words. nthe bread that I will give, is my fl•sh that I will give for the life of the world: as if this were not the same spiritual bread that he spake of before. 4. Being pressed with this that there is no bread at all in the Eucharist 22(as they say) k & therefore it cannot be the sacramental bread that is there spoken of, neither can it be meant of the bread that Christ was to give in the Supper, as he elsewhere had said: he saith that pbread there signifieth not wheaten bread, qnor Christs body absolutely, but rmeat or food in general: and so the sense of it is this; The bread, that is, the meat, that I will give, is my flesh it self, that is to be crucified and stain for the salvation of mankind.
What hee giueth vs heere wee take, that Christs body was by faith receiued euen before hee was incarnate. But how prooueth this that Christ therefore spake there of a sacramentall eating of it? and not rather that he called home those his carnall followers, from the corporall feeding, either on ithe bread that they had eaten of, or the kManna that they mentioned, and lwould faine still haue been fed with, that they might liue without labour, not to an eating of sacramentall bread, which they would not haue much misliked, but to that tspirituall feeding, uwhich as well their holy forefathers, as all true and faithfull Christians now, were eternally saued by. Yea this may be confirmed by Bellarmines owne grants: Who first confesseth this as xa certaine truth, that there is no mention at all of the Eucharist in all that our Sauiours discourse, before those wordes, (which were spoken after hee had done yspeaking of the Manna) zThe bread that I will giue is my flesh, that I will giue for the life of the world. 2. Hee granteth expresly that those wordes, aI am the brad of life; hee that commeth to me shall not hunger, &c. doe bnot properly belong to the Sacrament. 3. He obserueth ca three fold bread spoken of by our Sauiour: the first, that dmateriall bread, ethat Christ had fed them withall: the second f
- iJoh. 6. 26.Ioh. 6. 26.
- kVers. 31.
- lVers. 34.
- tVers. 27.
- uVers 50, 51.
- xConstat in magna parte capitis de Eucharistia non agi. Solū quaestio est de illis verbis, Panis quem ego dabo, &c. & sequentibus Bellarm, de Euchar. l. 1. c. 5.Constat in magna parte capitis de Eucharistia non agi. Solū quaestio est de illis verbis, Panis quem ego dabo, &c. & sequentibus Bellarm, de Euchar. l. 1. c. 5.
- yVers. 3, 49.
- zVers. 51.
- aVers. 35.
- bNon pertinent ad Sarramentum propriè Ibid. c. 7.
- cTriplicis panis mentio fit. Bellar ibid.
- dPanis materialis.
- eVers. 11. 12.
- fSecundum panem dicit seipsum esse.
- gVers. 33. 41, 51.
- hVerse 27.
- iVers. 29. 35.
- kVers. 49.
- lVers. 31. ex P• l. 78. 24, 25.
- mPanis Eucha•st cus. Ibid.
